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In defence of swap: common misconceptions ( chrisdown.name )

To be clear, I don't blame the poster of this comment at all for the content of their post – this is accepted as "common knowledge" by a lot of Linux sysadmins and is probably one of the most likely things that you will hear from one if you ask them to talk about swap. It is unfortunately also, however, a misunderstanding of...

Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness ( www.phoronix.com )

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space....

TheLinuxExperiment: Menus, windows, launchers & system trays SUCK. What can we replace them with? ( tilvids.com )

If you think about productivity, you can't help but think that having the default state of your computer being an image with a few icons on it is less than stellar. For opening files, it will never be tidy enough to give you access to all you need, you need a launcher or a folder structure, meaning the desktop is bad at this....

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